Underworld compared to NO

john dougherty wrote: I mourn thier demise....as I recall, Darren Emerson left and is solo and the other guy (I forget his name) is still recording as underworld, and another group name as well...I forget all the details

The original members, Karl Hyde, Rick Smith and Darren Price, are still together as Underworld, recording and performing to this day - they have *NOT* split up!

Darren Emerson did leave (just after the release of "Everything Everything" (the live album) - if memory serves me correctly) to start the "Underwater" record label. He still DJ's to this day and releases stuff both by him and other artists on the Underwater label.

And, yes, Underworld are *NOT* a new band - they've been going (as Underworld) since 1986 and, before that, recorded as "Freur".

So, now, you know!

I don't like comparing different bands to each other as every credible (not manufactured or in it for the money) band always has a sound or something about them which makes the listener like them or hate them.

For me personally Underworld are along with New Order one of my favourite bands but I like them both for totally different reasons. Underworld defined a moment in British/European Dance music within which you could experiment with ideas and create music which was against the music industry establishment's expected norms of Dance music pre-1988 (i.e. not a dodgy session singer singing over dodgy Hi NRG soul or even worse Stock, Aitken & Waterman (sic) etc. tosh!) Everyone's different (some of you will like bands I absolutely detest!) but if you like the dancier stuff New Order have done I defy you to listen to say Rez, Cowgirl, Dark & Long (Dark Train), Skyscraper I Love You, Dirty Vegas, King Of Snake, Pearls Girls, and even though it was done to death with Trainspotting Born Slippy without at least admitting that they along with Orbital RIP, Leftfield RIP, Chemical Brothers, Faithless, etc. have at least made people sit up and take notice of quality Dance music and steer the agenda away from record company fat cats who pimp every innovative genre of music from Jazz to Rock to Hip Hop to Electro to Rave to Dance over the years.

Unfortunately I haven't downloaded the Lovely Broken Thing or Pizza For Eggs stuff Underworld have done so can't comment on that (hope to do so soon) and look forward to hearing their contribution to the soundtrack of the forthcoming Breaking And Entering film. Cheers!

Hank Wiseass© wrote:

Barcaboy99 wrote:

J.A.K wrote: what comparison?

is none!!

shite underworld

Completely agree.

A double shite in fact.

What kind of comment is that? What's shite about them? Have you heard any of their albums? I personally don't rate their latest stuff but to just dismiss a band as 'shite' without any explanation looks childish. Why comment at all if it's just not your bag?

100% agreed... underworld deserves much respect. i know this is a new order board, but really, many of you have got to start considering other points of view and histories of music. it reminds me of someone else's thread recently bemoaning about how new order is not his rock & roll history text book. believe it or not, there's other great music out there besides new order, whether in the history books, underground or wherever.

for me, underworld were also there at that pivotal point when new order and side bands weren't there, just like a previous post said. they truly pushed electronic music and are so influential. i still shudder everytime i hear the opening chords to Rowla. it's fucking fantastic.

Dubnobass ,Second Toughest and Beacoup Fish are top albums.Underworld were probably my favourite band in the mid to late 90s in the absence of New Order.Saw them at the 'Temptation' New Order gig at Manchester Evening News Arena Dec 98.

They ,like the Chems, wouldn't have existed if not for New Order.Well they may have but would have sounded very different.

Lost track of them the last few years though and didnt even buy Hundred Days Off.